Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derridawas a French philosopher, born in Algeria. Derrida is best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which he discussed in numerous texts, and developed in the context of phenomenology. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy...
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth15 July 1930
roles argument stage
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.
eye spirit tradition
Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism , in a certain spirit of Marxism .
circles return chance
The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
practice personality philosopher
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
opening-up risk gestures
Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.
media political-language doe
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
insecurity eccentric strange
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
language scene generalities
As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
speech consciousness silent
But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible.
long apocalypse ends
The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived.
deconstruction
There is nothing outside the text
differences systematic inventory
In a language, in the system of language, there are only differences. Therefore, a taxonomical operation an undertake the systematic, statistical, and classificatory inventory of a language.
cinema ghost plus
Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.
what-if doubt secret
But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity. Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code (whose notion itself is already contradictory) of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secret’s secret? Even so the scene would not be changed. The accomplices, as you are once again well aware, are also bound to die.